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Board members

UKTI has brought together business people with international trade and
investment experience coupled with Advanced Engineering experience to:

Advise Government on marketing the UK for international trade and inward investment;
Advise on issues affecting UK business's perceptions of and capacity for international trade;
Provide ideas on how UK-based Advanced Engineering companies can improve their international business performance;
Give strategic advice on the relative priority of market and sub-sector opportunities and activities to achieve UK Trade & Investment's corporate targets;
Consider the effectiveness of UKTI activities in achieving those targets and evolve priorities accordingly;
Help bring coherence to the sector's international marketing efforts.

The Board is chaired by Peter Matthews CMG, a past Board Member of UKTI.

Peter Mathews, CMG

Black Country Metals LTD, Board Chair, Chairman & Managing Director

Peter Michael Mathews CMG, FRSA, FInstD, MIex, MICME, Chairman and Managing Director of Black Country Metals Limited, trading in recyclable metals worldwide. Peter is a member of the Bureau of International Recycling in Brussels and until June 2006, was for 11 years the Convention Chairman, playing his part in setting the agenda for recycling as being the best sustainability option by recycling throughout the world. Peter is a past board member of UK Trade & Investment and sits on the CBI International Advisory Panel.